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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 10, 1932
Page
6
The poem paints a contented woman in sunny rooms and a warm hearth. Her blue cotton dress, apron, and quiet grace frame a home filled with homemade foods, flowers, a garden, and a peaceful heart. She embodies a steady soul pleased with simple things and the fragrance of soil and stars.
A Betty Barclay feature offers two salad recipes including Rice Huppesas and Stuffed Tomato Salad with dressing notes. It also shares shortcake and coconut pudding ideas with detailed ingredients, plus a testimonial claim for Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil illustrating general-use health claims.
The text argues that true ambition requires costly industry and relentless effort. Wishing alone does not compel work, whether one aims to be a musician banker president or top football player.
A brief note states I have given my word of honor and shall abide by it. The writer signs off as Mike Torey with formal closing Truly yours.
Mike Torey declines a $10 weekly contract after signing, holds to his word of honor, and refuses to quit for a $12 offer from Davy & Davy. Oscar Davy later hires him for $15 weekly, praising integrity and fair practice, while Crane’s firm gains a trusted worker.
A collection of light anecdotes includes a junior class moment where a student jokes about virtue if a donkey is beaten. A prize winner on animal cruelty coins a fur coat plan. A milkman muses on extra milk and townsfolk. A chief constable and vet is asked to help a burglar with a bulldog.
A stout man insists on square toes for shoes while the clerk says pointed toes are fashionable this season. He retorts he is wearing last season's feet and refuses boosts offered by the assistant.
Friday Mrs Killem is ill and Mr Gillem balks at calling the doctor over a Blue bath robe. Saturday Pa argues with the mayor about Easy in town. Sunday they run short of stake after a supper. Monday Emmy petitions the doctor for a bad foot and a surprising diagnosis. Wednesday Emil Hix faces divorce and alimony following a quarrel over an engagement ring. Thursday school complaints rise as a pupil misplaces a pencil and a teacher’s patience wears thin.
A historical explanation outlines how lightning produces immense light and heat, estimating energy at up to 13 000 horsepower for a second and describing how static electricity forms in clouds. It notes flashes occur mainly within thunderclouds, with varying bolt strength and effects on objects.
Children show worms symptoms as mothers detect by the child's fretfulness and distress. The remedy claims prompt, efficient eradication of worms and a boost for children run down by their parasitic illness.
Acton Georgetown over T Seynuck's Café on Main Street announces dental appointments. Dr A J Buchanan D D S and successor to Dr J M Bew list office hours 9 a m to 6 p m with evenings by appointment. Closed all day Wednesday. Phone numbers 143 and 29 in Acton.
Account books and all kinds bound to order. Periodicals bound with care. Ruling neatly and promptly done.
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